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[ruby-talk:04037] Re: RegExps and latin_1

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-15 15:09:55 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4037
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:04036] Re: RegExps and latin_1"
    on 00/07/15, Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|One more question: how about allowing redefinitions of rexexp character
|classes? I'm not sure how big change this would be in the regexp engine, but
|it would surely be neat. Then my (mental) semantic distance would be really
|short if I'm coding some text processing utilities for artificial language
|'Foo 9 from Outer Space' which has only two characters in whole language:
|'f' and '9'. Redefining one word character '\w' to match [f9] would make
|things nice.

Let's discuss when 1.7 development is started.

							matz.

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